Stand for umbrellas, walking-sticks, golf-clubs, brushes, and other articles.



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APPLIOATION FILED JULY 29.1907.

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WILLIAM CHARLES POLES, OF NANTWIGH, AND WILLIAM WAKEFIELD KNIGHT, OF HERE- FORD, ENGLAND.

STAND FOR UMBRELLAS, WALKING-STICKS, GOLF-CLUBS, BRUSHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application filed July 29, 1907. Serial No. 386,097.

T 0 all whom it may concern."

Be it known that we, \VILLIAM Cimurins POLES and IVILLIAM WAKEFIELD Kn 1on1, British subjects, and residents, VILLIAM CHARLES PoLrs, of Nantwich, county of Chester, England, and WILLIAM WVAKEFIELD KNIGHT, of Hereford, county of Hereford, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stands for Umbrellas, WValking- Sticks, Golf- Clubs, Brushes, and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of stands for umbrellas, walking sticks, golf clubs, brushes and other articles in which an open frame or carrier is mounted on a suitable base at an inclination, and provided with a number of shelves or ledges, the front edge of one being about over the center of the one below it and each shelf or ledge except the top one being formed with a number of recesses or sockets and each shelf or ledge except the bottom one being provided at the front with large holes staples or rings corresponding in number with the sockets in p the ledge or shelf below.

The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings forming part of the specification.

Figure 1. End elevation of the stand showing the base hinged to the uprights and held in position by a stay or bar. Detail showing. a modification of form of stay. Fi 3. End elevation of same show- 111 shbwing another arrangement of supporting the uprights. showing base folded. Fig. 6. Sectional elevation showing a further modification in which the shelves or ledges are pivoted to the uprights. Fig. 7. Sectional elevation of same showing base and shelves folded.

The frame or stand is constructed with two uprights A and transverse shelves or ledges B and a base C to which the uprights are afiixed. These are made of wood or other suitable material and painted or ornamented in any suitable way. The shelves or ledges B are fitted 'to the uprights A either permanently, or loosely or temporarily so that they may be removed for packing and easily refitted in position again. The shelves may for instance slide into dovetail shaped or other grooves in the uprights A Fig. 2-.

base folded. Fig. 4. End elevation Fig. 5. End elevation of same from which they may be easily removed. Each shelf B with the exception of the top one is formed with a number of holes or sockets b and a number of rings or hoops or staples Z) are affixed to the front edges of all the shelves but the bottom one so that an article such as an umbrella is supported approximately perpendicular in the stand by being passed through the staple or ring I) with the end resting in the socket 6 below. The uprights are set at such an angle or inclination that the edge of one shelf is about perpendicularly above the row of sockets in the one below. The uprights A may be rigidly afiixed to the base C, or they may be hinged or pivoted thereto as in Figs. 1, 2 and 6, or the base C as such may be dispensed with and a pivoted stay such as C Fig. 4. may be substituted. The hinging or pivoting of the upright to the base or to supporting stays enables it to be folded up into small compass as shown for packing or storage purposes.

In Fig. 1. the base C is shown pivoted to the upright A on a hinge c and a stay or bar D of wood or iron pivoted to the extremity of the base C a pin d on the upper end of the stay D sliding in a groove a in a plate a afiixed to the side of the upright A. When folded the base and stay take the position shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 2 a slight modification of the stay D is shown with a projecting end d to rest upon the floor instead of a caster. Or the base C may be made with a foot or block instead of a caster.

In Fig. 4. a modification is shown in which a heavy base is dispensed with the ends of the inclined uprights A resting direct upon the floor either with or without a caster. A horizontal base stay C is pivoted to the side of the upright A and to it and to the latter a stay D of wood or iron is pivoted to support the upright one end of the stay resting upon the ground and a pin (Z on the upper end sliding in a groove a in a plate d a xed to the side of the upright. When folded the stays C and D take the position shown in Fig. 5.

In Fig. 6 the base C is shown pivoted tothe upright A and the shelves or ledges B are pivoted at b to the uprights A to permit of them being sw'iveled into such a position that the projecting staples or loops b will be brought Within the sides of the uprights to preserve them from damage When packed. The shelves are connected by a second pivot e to a rod or bar E by raising Which the shelves are tilted into the desired position. A button 6 of Wood or other material pivoted to the upright holds the bar E in position.

What We claim as our invention and desire to protect by Letters Patent is In a stand for displaying articles the combination of inclined uprights A transverse shelves or ledges B formed with recesses b and provided With loopsrb, pivots 12 upon which the shelves rotate, a positioning link E, connected to the shelves B by pivots 6, stops to maintain the link E in the alternative positions, a base or base strut (such as C C) attached to the uprights and stays such as D to support the uprights in the desired position all substantially as described. In Witness whereof, We have each hereunto signed our names in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM CHARLES POLES. WILLIAM WAKEFIELD KNIGHT. l/Vitnesses to the signature of lVillia-m Charles Poles:

THOMAS CHADWICK, ALFRED THOMAS. Witnesses to the signature of William Wakefield Knight:

JOSEPH THOMAS, ALFRED LERRY. 

